sh weirdness

[Ralph Finch]

After rebooting a Sun 4/260, SunOS 4.1, I find that sometimes 'if'
statements are mysteriously mishandled in the Bourne shell.  Doing sh
-x on the scripts reveals that some if's are evaluated and then the
script dies without completing.

This leaves my machine in a fairly crippled state; does anybody have
an idea on how to fix it?  Reboots including cold starts have no
effect.
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